Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.